Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 - ext3 wedging up

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:27:26 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli said:

> Ok great this explain things, so perhaps my last hack attempt of not
> accounting the unstable pages in the "nr_reclaimable" isn't needed.
> 
> What about Valids, were you using jfs too along with ext3? If a single
> fs has a bug the loop can happen (it could happen in mainline too,
> except it was less likely to be visible there).

% zgrep -i jfs /proc/config.gz 
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set

Sorry, this is an ext3-based system, no JFS here.

Another (possibly unimportant) data point:  I was seeing it with 256M
of RAM, but after a recent upgrade to 768M, I'm not seeing it.  Probably
need to reboot with mem=256 to replicate now...

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